How to Build a Home: Representing Migration Stories, Museum of the Home
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Information here (www.bbk.ac.uk/research/centres/raphael-samuel-history-centre/public-history-festivals)
How have migrants made homes? How can we make visible the history of migrant homes? Whose stories should be told in museums?
The Museum of the Home is in the process of redesigning its collections to better represent the rich and diverse histories of local migrant communities in East London. Its permanent displays will soon include rooms which portray the domesticities of Jewish migrants (1870s), the Irish community (1930s) and the Vietnamese community (21st century), in addition to an existing room depicting a Caribbean migrant family (1970s).
You are invited to an after-hours event at the Museum where those involved in redesigning the collections – curators, activitists, community partners – will discuss the process of attempting to represent the complex and often hidden histories of migrant homes. Audience members will be guided through the evolving period rooms while the speakers share the collaborative research and community engagement work which supported the redesign. There will also be the opportunity for audience members to observe new acquisitions which document migrant homes and an object handling exercise. Finally, audience members will be invited to offer their thoughts and suggestions for representing migrant homes in the Museum through an open forum.
This event is part of Migration: a public history festival, a series of lectures, exhibitions, workshops and walks around London, supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre.
Contact name:
Katy Pettit